It is only when you know about a subject that you realise how absolutely crap the reporting is.
I would like to bet the following were all false reports:
1) The plane was on fire before it landed.
2) The passengers were briefed for an emergency landing
3)The crew forgot to put the gear down
4)The tower told the crew to check the gear was down
Thank you for that post
We seem to be wasting our posting time here with presuming to believe some of the ignorant news reports prior to confirmation by investigators.
I'm sure one can pare the theories down quite a bit by confirming or denying the facts in the post quoted.
Until then lets try to get some confirmation with better sources, We know what can go wrong but don't know yet what went wrong.